The award procedure started a year ago for the operation of two thirds of the Berlin S-Bahn network and for the procurement of a modern vehicle pool could still be stopped if there was political will. This is the result of a legal position paper drawn up on behalf of the action alliance “One S-Bahn for Everyone”, which was presented to the public on Tuesday. Cancellation of the tender “is possible and also justifiable under budget law”, stated the lead lawyer Benno Reinhardt in an accompanying statement. Subsequently, there could be “several options” for Berlin and Brandenburg to “operate the S-Bahn under local authority from a single source.”
At the initiative of Transport Senator Regine Günther (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), operations for two subnets are to be transferred from the previously responsible DB subsidiary S-Bahn Berlin GmbH to one or two companies from 2027. As part of a …
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